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Originally Posted by ljakse
Ok, I`m not a psychologist, but I think I understand him. Fetish is in the root something else, not related to what we usually think when we use the word "fetish". Real fetisch is not related with eroticism at all. I`m from Europe too, but I don`t know what should mean that adjective "americanised" in this particular case. I still agree that maybe the word PARAPHILIA better describes what is about.
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The understanding matter of the word 'fetish', is rather liguistic, alongside with psy content... :-)
Fetish in origin has religious connotation: object believed to possess supernatural powers.
Generalised however (not only in religious or sexual context), it STILL means :
an intermediary object (including objectified part of a body, or mental concept..) to facilitate something
different.
Fetish serves to facilitate some goal, different from, = NOT cofined in the object itself.
Therefore, lots of situations called "fetish" in sexual commercialism (sales-man linguistic abuse of the word, as was started primarity in the USA in the 1970-ies, then "exported") are not a fetish at all, when they are the goal in itself.
I believe, a minimum of linguistic .... "Hygiene" :-) ... could be welcomed in communication !
